Sleep and the lid (?)

I have an awful macbook pro. So many problems. A new problem I have is that the lid doesn't stay shut, so I now can't use the sleep mode without worrying about it waking up while in my bag, etc. Is there a way to prevent the opening and closing of the lid from sending it to sleep and waking it up?
Thanks.

I wouldn't be surprised if this were the case - it does get hot.  However, this happens even when I first open it after having it in sleep mode for an entire night...  Do you know how to run the diag tool with OS X 10.7?

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